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about the lines and on the under sides of the wings. Head reddish-biown 

 in front and on the palpi, which are stout, and pass considerably beyond the 

 front; the vertex is whitish ash. Wings salmon ash-gray, a little darker 

 between the two lines; both lines pale, testaceous, edged on the sides lacing 

 the discal dot with brown; they are distinct, not blended with the rest 

 of the wing; inner line oblique, slightly curved ; the outer line is oblique, 

 ending next to the apex; on the costa a broad pale sp'ace between the line 

 and the dark apical streak below, the line being margined externally with a 

 faint brown line ; just beyond this line the wing is clear and paler, as within 

 the inner line, and with dark flecks, but the edge of the wing is as dark as 

 in the middle; discal dot black, small, curvilinear, distinct; fringe brown, 

 with a paler fine line at the base. Hind wings a little paler and more trans- 

 versely strigated than the fore wings; a single straight line just beyond the 

 middle of the wing, like the outer line on the fore wings; beneath, paler 

 than above, carneous-ash. Veins and common line with a decided reddish 

 tint, especially toward the apex of the fore wings ; the line is very diffuse, 

 especially on the hind wings. Both pairs of wings are transversely strigated. 

 Fringe brown beneath and darker on edge of fore wings. On the hind 

 wings, the line is a very diffuse shade. 



Length of body, <S , 0.45; of fore wing, S, 0.50; expanse of wings, 

 1.00 inch. 



Montreal, Canada (Caulfield) ; Lansing, Mich. (Miles) ; New York 

 (Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc.) 



Metanema inatomaeia Guene'e. Plate 12, fig. 38. 



Metanema inatomaria Guen., Phal., i, 171, pi. 3, fig. 7, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xs, 203, 18G0. 



3 <$ and 2 9. — Pale gray, with a slight salmon tint; wings specked 

 transversely with brown, the specks being longest on the costa, there being 

 two prominent, deep, brown, squarish spots just inside the terminations 

 of the two lines. Wings crossed by two oblique pale lines, the inner 

 situated just beyond the basal third of the wing ; it is not sinuate, but 

 is sometimes a little curved, and is bent a little on the costa, where it 

 expands widely; outer line more oblique, shaded within with reddish-brown 

 (especially on the hind wings), not curved, and not bent on the costa, but 

 spreading to form a triangle it ends a little before the apex; just below the 



